Chapter 26: The Murderer

When Xiao Lei came to Baiyi Pharmacy, there was no one in the shop, and there was a smell of medicine in the shop, as if someone had just decocted medicine at the back door of the shop.

He shouted twice, but no one responded. Compared to the hustle and bustle outside the street, the shop is as quiet as the rest of the world. He suddenly noticed that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Xiao Lei bypassed the counter and walked towards the inner room of the house. He wondered if it was the medicine boy boiling the medicine at the back door, so he didn't hear him.

He lifted the curtain that had been yellowed by medicinal herbs all the year round and walked inside, he looked ahead, and did not pay attention to his feet, when suddenly he was thrown forward by an object. Xiao Lei naturally supported it with his hand, and after the collision between his elbow and the hard ground, a cone pain penetrated his brain, almost making him unable to get up immediately and could only sit cross-legged on the ground.

After the pain subsided, he noticed a slippery feeling in his hands, and when he looked at the blood on his hands, he thought he was injured, but before he could check whether there were any wounds on his hands, the scarlet liquid on the ground jumped into his sight.

He collapsed in a pool of blood! For a moment he forgot to get up.

It wasn't the sudden change that made Xiao Lei so frightened that he couldn't move, because he was still looking at a person in the pool of blood, and the person who fell in the pool of blood was the old doctor he was looking for.

The old doctor had a sharp dagger stuck in his chest, but the dagger was not completely submerged in his chest, and he could still see a white dangling blade exposed outside. Xiao Lei's mind went blank all of a sudden, although he had seen a lot of monsters in Kunlun, it didn't mean that he wasn't afraid of the dead.

Xiao Lei didn't know how he stood up, and when he wanted to run out to call someone, he saw Xiao Lei's wide-eyed "dead" doctor with a faint "hehe" sound in his mouth.

"Not dead yet." Xiao Lei thought about it and immediately ran to the doctor, held down the wound that kept gushing blood, and shouted: "Someone! Come on! When Xiao Lei's reflection met the old doctor's cloudy eyes, the old doctor's almost lost sight immediately became focused. For a moment, as if returning to the light, the old doctor's hand hanging beside him grabbed Xiao Lei's wrist stiffly, and the voice in his mouth changed a tone: "Warp...... ...... Xiao Lei listened attentively to the old doctor's last words, but the deafening scream behind him was comparable to that of a bird, drowning out the last syllable that the old doctor spit out, and also drowning out his last trace of anger.

Xiao Lei was startled by the scream, and turned around to see the medicine boy whose feet were trembling with fear. Before he could explain, the medicine boy saw Xiao Lei, who had a "venomous" face, turned his head like crazy and ran, shouting as he fled: "Murder!" Kill! A heart-rending cry, as if he had been killed.

Xiao Lei felt bad in his heart when he saw the medicine boy looking at him in fear, and when he heard the medicine boy's shout, he was anxious but helpless, he couldn't leave at this time, and once he left, he was even more sure of killing people. For a moment, he found himself seemingly caught in a conspiracy.

Because of the medicine boy's shouting and the location of the medicine store in a bustling market, Xiao Lei heard a noisy voice approaching after a while. When Xiao Lei stood up, the curtain on the door was waved open by a big man, and then several men of three or five thick came in. These were all coolies who were carrying in the rice shop next to them, and when they saw the old doctor in the pool of blood with their bare arms, their eyes flashed with a trace of fear, and they saw that Xiao Lei, the "murderer", was just a man who looked like a scholar, so they were relieved.

A few people stepped forward to make a move, but Xiao Lei immediately scolded: "Stop! "If they really subdue him with brute force, he will inevitably break his muscles and bones.

Seeing Xiao Lei's solemn face, he didn't look like a murderer's viciousness, and hesitated for a while, look at me, I look at you.

"Murderer! Catch the murderer! At this time, the medicine boy squeezed in the crowd, he hid behind a big man, and seemed to have a trace of courage to point at Xiao Lei and shout.

"Whether I'm a murderer or not, it's not up to you to decide! I'm not leaving, I'm going to wait for the catch to come soon. Xiao Lei knew that if there was a trace of cowardice and weakness at this time, the group of people in front of him would definitely pounce without hesitation.

"I know you! You are the eldest son of the Xiao family. Do you want to wait for the arrest to come soon, so that there will be a collusion between officials and businessmen? Don't think I don't know what you rich people do! With red eyes, the medicine boy looked at the master who was lying dead in a pool of blood, and mustered up the courage to stand up and accuse loudly.

The big men looked at Xiao Lei more and more unkindly because of the medicine boy's words, and Xiao Lei saw all the changes in their expressions in his eyes, and he lamented in his heart. Suddenly, a slippery and cold touch penetrated Xiao Lei's sleeve, quickly climbed up his arm, and then heard a familiar voice in his ear: "It's me." ”

Xiao Lei's heart was shocked, and the helplessness of being isolated and helpless suddenly had a general reliance, the little hooked snake came, so the stone vine should be not far away.

He froze, looked at the medicine boy and said, "You say I killed someone?" Is there any evidence? Can you see me kill the old gentleman? ”

"I ...... I...... I saw you holding the dagger stuck to your master's body! The medicine boy's eyes were a little evasive, but he seemed to think of something and said firmly.

"Did you see the moment I plunged the dagger into the old man's body? How do you know that I am holding a dagger and not covering the wound of an old gentleman? Do you see me holding the handle of the dagger? A series of questions turned the medicine boy's face pale, but he couldn't answer anything.

"Without evidence, what qualifications do you have to take people?" Xiao Lei's every word is not hurried or slow, so that people can't hear a trace of weakness and panic after killing. On the contrary, it is loud and full of energy.

"Zheng Zhutou is here!" Someone in the crowd of onlookers suddenly shouted, and the crowd consciously moved out of the way in the congested pharmacy.

Xiao Lei was still standing in place, and the curtain on the inner door of the pharmacy was pulled to the ground in the crowd of people, trampling on it out of shape. A pair of official boots stepped on the curtain, wiped it vigorously, and kicked the curtain aside.

"The people concerned will stay, and the idle people will wait to go out." The owner of the official boots made a gloomy sound, which made several big men present shudder. They withdrew with smiling faces, and the crowded pharmacy became spacious again.

"Young Master Xiao?" The other party seemed to be asking about Xiao Lei's identity, but in his tone, he was sure that he had already known Xiao Lei's identity.

Xiao Lei looked at the visitor and was stunned, all of the catches he knew were three big and five thick, and he was burly. But the man in front of him dressed in fast-catching clothes, his face was pale like a sick color, the narrow corners of his eyes were even more charming than a woman's, his nose was like a gall, and his lips were like rouge. If it weren't for the Adam's apple in his throat, he would have thought that the man in front of him, who was more beautiful than a woman, was a woman dressed as a man.

The visitor saw Xiao Lei staring straight at his face, and a trace of disgust and a very slight killing intent flashed in his eyes. He suppressed it very well, Xiao Lei didn't see it at all, but the little hooked snake with keen perception noticed it, and reminded Xiao Lei softly: "He's dangerous!" ”